Open access, institutional repositories and UBIR 21 November 2008 – Sarah Taylor Open access, institutional repositories and UBIR The University of Bolton

Open access, institutional repositories and UBIR 21 November 2008 – Sarah Taylor

Open access, institutional repositories and UBIR

The University of Bolton Institutional Repository (UBIR)

Open access, institutional repositories and UBIR21 November 2008 – Sarah Taylor

Introduction

Current models of scholarly communication

Open Access

Institutional repositories

Challenges

University of Bolton Institutional Repository (UBIR), including a live demonstration

Next steps

Questions and discussion


Research and publication: funded research? Funded by whom?

Peer-review process.

Versions of research and version control.

Access to research.

Research assessment exercises, e.g. RAE, and REF.

Stamp of scholarly excellence

Scholarly communication:Why challenge the status quo?


Scholarly communication:Why challenge the status quo?

Author writes paper

Submits to journal

Paper refereed

Revised by author

Author submits final version

Published in journalReproduced with kind permission from SHERPA


Scholarly communication:The “journals crisis”

Some journals are extremely expensive.

Consolidation of publisher activities, meaning decreased competition.

Access complications due to complex licensing arrangements and cost.

The costs can be such that institutions in developing countries may not be able to afford the publications.

The peer-review process takes time: could this be slowing scholarly communications.

When a subscription ends, so too could does access.


What is Open Access (OA)?


What is Open Access (OA)?

All users have free, permanent access to research, and licence to use, copy, or distribute that research

or that:

Research is deposited in electronic form, into an established repository

(Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

Open Access (OA) can be said to be achieved when one, or both, of the following conditions are met:


Free, permanent access to research that does not rely on institutional subscriptions.

Might include production of Open Access journals.

Enables a different form of scholarly communication.

In depositing in an institutional repository, can present a showcase for research, enabling further collaboration and awareness.

Negate access issues which are often a barrier to the research.

Research is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and globally.

Greater visibility of research and increased citations.

Benefits of OA


OA and the peer-review process

Author writes paper

Submits to journal

Paper refereed

Revised by author

Author submits final version

Published in journal

Deposits in open access repository

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Institutional repositories: features and benefits

Institutionally defined, complementing or even replacing existing methods of scholarly communication within that institution;

Scholarly, meaning that any research could be included. Depending on the goals of the repository and institution, this could even include undergraduate work;

Cumulative and perpetual, so that it not only grows, but it also remains;

Open and interoperable, so that the research is not only available, but that it can work with other systems.

An institutional repository should have the following four features:

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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/johnson/11johnson.html


Institutional repositories: features and benefits

Open access with no reliance on institutional subscriptions

Can fulfil funders’ requirements.

Institutional or subject-based for example the physics repository ArXiv.

Full-text only, bibliographic details only, or a mixture of the two; a hybrid repository.

Searchable and browseable.

Outward linking and a variety of file formats.

Indexed by search engines such as Google, Google Scholar and multi-repository harvesting services such as OAIster.

Statistics.


UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository

Funded by JISC funding stream for start-up repositories and enhancement.

Commenced 2007.

Soft-launched.

A full-text repository, aiming to represent all areas of the University of Bolton.

A hosted service, so we can concentrate on advocacy and populating the repository.

41 items to date, with over 1,600 full-text downloads in the past year.

Indexed by Google, the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and OAIster


UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository

http://digitalcommons.bolton.ac.uk/




Challenges and concerns

Copyright

Version control

Integrity of scholarly communication

Ensuring that depositing in a repository does not preclude from publishing in journals

“Future proofing” the data


Challenges and concerns: copyright

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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/


Next steps: your repository needs you!

Send us your research – we will accept anything that you have produced. It’s your repository, so you decide what goes in.

We can scan, so it’s fine if you only have print copies.

We need as much information as possible, details of what is required are available on UBIR.

Ask as many questions as you like!

Available for course committee meetings, general meetings, presentations and can provide written documentation.

Tell us what you think: let us know if there is anything you would like us to develop, or anything you think is missing.


Further information

UBIR: http://digitalcommons.bolton.ac.uk/

JISC Open Access Briefing Paper (April 2005):http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess

JISC Digital Repositories Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories

OAIster: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

Open access webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc/

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): http://www.doaj.org/


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories


Conclusion

Open Access

Institutional repositories, their features and benefits

Challenges and concerns

University of Bolton Institutional Repository (UBIR)

Next steps and how you can get involved

Links to further sources of information


Thank you

UBIR is available at http://digitalcommons.bolton.ac.uk/

Contact UBIR on [email protected] or on 01204 903099

Sarah Taylor: [email protected], telephone 01204 903099

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